You’re a slave-owning mafia boss – POLITICO

“Your invasion is in your own interest,” he said. “Only in your interest. To expand your mafia state into a mafia empire. An empire built on corruption.”

He added: ‘Mr President, I speak not just as a Briton, as a Londoner and as a Foreign Secretary.

“But I say to the Russian representative, who I have on the phone right now, that I also stand here as a black man whose ancestors were taken from Africa in chains, at gunpoint, to be enslaved, whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great uprising of the enslaved.

“Imperialism: I know it when I see it. And I will call it what it is,” Lammy said.

Pushing storm shadows

Lammy’s speech comes as Ukraine continues its intensive lobbying campaign to gain approval for the use of Western long-range missiles, including the British Storm Shadows, on targets deep inside Russia.

At the moment they can only be deployed in Ukraine. The UK supports their use, but US support is required.